Mammals fail to regenerate organs when wound contraction drives scar formation
Abstract To understand why mammals generally do not regenerate injured organs, we considered the exceptional case of spontaneous skin regeneration in the early lamb fetus. Whereas during the early fetal stage skin wounds heal by regeneration, in the late fetal stage, and after birth, skin wounds cl...
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Language: | English |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2022
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139760 |